Constant breakthroughs concerning the treatment of high cholesterol. Understanding the differences between LDL and HDL and how diet can effect your normal cholesterol level and why reducing cholesterol or by having lower cholesterol levels often leads to a healthier life.
"Great news for chocoholics! Our favorite food can, and I quote, 'significantly reduce LDL or ‘bad’ cholesterol levels and promote healthy circulation to maintain heart health'.”
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 9:25 PM
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"Is it possible to have too low a level of cholesterol? A cholesterol profile that reduces the risk of heart disease may increase the risk for Parkinson’s disease -- at least for men -- researchers report."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 9:21 PM
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"Because of its reputation as a risk factor for heart disease, people tend to think of cholesterol only in negative terms. But cholesterol is an important component of cell membranes and is vital to the structure and function of all of your body's cells. Cholesterol also is a building block in the formation of certain types of hormones."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 9:20 PM
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"Your cholesterol levels are well within the "safe" zone, much lower than the 200 milligrams per deciliter mark at which your chances of a heart attack or stroke increase."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 9:18 PM
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"Cardiology experts at Johns Hopkins, who say there is too much focus on lowering bad cholesterol (LDL) and not enough on increasing good cholesterol (HDL), have issued guidelines for physicians and consumers on improving levels of this artery clearing HDL."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 10:55 AM
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"Cardiology experts from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore have released guidelines for physicians on how to raise a patient's level of good cholesterol."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 10:53 AM
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"Scientists from Mexico's tequila producing region say juice extracted from the blue agave plant, best known when distilled into the fiery spirit, may help dieters shed pounds and cut cholesterol."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 10:47 AM
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"Sometimes life isn't fair, and if you're a guy, heart disease is one of those times. Sorry, but just being male automatically makes your risk of developing and dying from heart disease higher than it is for women--a lot higher. And the stakes are big. In 2002 heart disease caused more than 1 in every 4 deaths of American men, snuffing out nearly 341,000 lives. Usually the first symptom is a heart attack."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 5:04 PM
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" Most European cardiologists believe the problem of high cholesterol would be better treated by a twin-pronged attack on it, according to a new study presented at a cardiology conference in Stockholm."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 9:07 PM
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posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 9:06 PM
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"New research is illuminating the details of cholesterol's dangerous effect on human health."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 8:59 PM
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"Candy giant Mars has expanded its functional food line with a new plant sterol-enriched chocolate bar for lowering cholesterol."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 8:55 PM
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"It has long been known that high cholesterol levels can increase one's risk for heart disease, yet there has been little explanation on how this occurs. Now, research has uncovered the mystery surrounding the process of how cholesterol actually injures the heart arteries, a process called crystallization."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 2:16 PM
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"An ongoing search for profitable new uses for food-processing byproducts has led Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists to focus on citrus waste. They've recently learned that a compound found in orange oil decreases blood serum levels of the protein responsible for low-density lipoprotein (LDL) that's a major cholesterol carrier."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 11:11 AM
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"A 72 year old mystery about cholesterol synthesis which has been bugging scientists for so long has finally been cracked by Nobel laureates."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 11:05 AM
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" HDL cholesterol -- so-called good cholesterol -- affords some protection against artery-hardening, heart attacks and strokes."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 11:02 AM
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"Grain sorghum compounds could be used as food ingredients or dietary supplements to manage cholesterol levels, say US researchers."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 11:00 AM
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"For most of history, the human heart has been regarded as a forbidden organ too delicate to tamper with. It might have remained so, were it not for World War II. Military doctors, facing injury and suffering on a massive scale, pioneered advances in antibiotics, anesthesia and blood transfusions -- advances that would usher in the age of modern surgery. Infact, in the beginning of 19 th century, very few people died of heart disease."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 3:43 PM
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"NewsCenter 5's Liz Brunner reported Monday that new research has found what experts believe is the key to lowering cholesterol levels and heart disease deaths in men. It's not a pill or procedure. In fact, you have all the tools you need right at the end of your legs."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 9:40 AM
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"Men can cut their odds of dying from heart disease in half in about the time it takes to watch a feature-length movie, new research shows."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 9:39 AM
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"Daily consumption of soy protein found in tofu and other soybean products may result in a small reduction in low-density lipoprotein (LDL, known as bad cholesterol) and triglyceride levels."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 9:35 AM
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The treatment / management of high cholesterol to reduce the risk of death from heart disease may be as effectively managed by omega-3 fatty acids as with cholesterol-lowering medicines.
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 9:33 AM
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"For the past several decades, researchers worldwide have focused on ways to reduce cholesterol. Hence, we now have drugs powerful enough to reduce cholesterol levels in just about anyone. We also know that a healthful lifestyle can control cholesterol. Regular exercise, smoking cessation, a good diet and weight management all may manage cholesterol values, too."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 9:32 AM
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"If you have high cholesterol, three foods might help bring it down, according to a new study."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 9:31 AM
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"Being physically fit can dramatically reduce men’s deaths from heart disease – even when their cholesterol rates are high, says Queen’s researcher Peter Katzmarzyk."
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 9:30 AM
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"Heart attacks and strokes often occur when plaques inside the blood vessels rupture and block blood flow. Now, new research sheds light on how cholesterol crystal build-up in the plaque contributes to this process. "
posted by Healthy Wealthy & Wise @ 9:28 AM
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